NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA RTX A4000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A4000 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA RTX A4000

Price

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$ 1016.49

$ 104.46 slightly less expensive

$ 1120.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

109 %

51% significantly better overall score

72 %

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

266 FPS

92 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

175 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

137 FPS

49 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

88 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

191 FPS

71 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

121 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

107 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

67 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

17552

59% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

10987

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5024.69

49% significantly higher Blender score

3362.00

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

206390

65% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

124547

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

181771

56% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

116149

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

126138

51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

83390

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

179840

47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

121897

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

151693

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

103883

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1440 MHz

95% significantly higher core clock speed

735 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1710 MHz

9% slightly higher boost clock speed

1560 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

10 GiB

16 GiB

60% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

320 Bit

25% slightly larger memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

760.3 GB/s

69% significantly higher memory bandwidth

448 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

320 W

140 W

128% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

164.2 Gigapixels/s

9% slightly higher pixel rate

149.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

465.1 Gigatexels/s

55% significantly higher texture rate

299.5 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

29.77 TFLOPS

55% significantly better floating point performance

19.17 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

8704

41% slightly more shading units

6144

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

272

41% slightly more texture mapping units

192

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

13th of 549

23rd of 549

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

September 2020

April 2021

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3080 vs RTX A4000 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card is better than the RTX A4000 in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 3080 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3080 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the RTX A4000 has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 10 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the RTX A4000 has a significantly lower TDP at 140 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 at 320 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3080 over the RTX A4000.